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Skandapurana 16.12

Skandapurāṇa 16.12

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16.12.1

.. īśvara uvāca .. ..
yā saṃjñā sā smṛtā rājñī chāyā yā sā tu nikṣubhā ..
rājṛ dīptau smṛto dhātū rājā rājati yaḥ sadā .. 1 ..

Īśvara said: / She who is Saṃjñā is remembered as Rājñī; she who is Chāyā is Nikṣubhā. / The root rājṛ is remembered in the sense of shining; a king is one who always shines. (1)

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16.12.2

adhikaṃ sarvabhūtebhyastasmādrājā sa ucyate ..
rājapatnī tu sā yasmāttasmādrājñī prakīrtitā .. 2 ..

He is called a king because he is superior to all beings; / and because she is the king's wife, she is celebrated as Rājñī. (2)

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16.12.3

kṣubha saṃcalane dhāturniścalā tena nikṣubhā ..
bhavaṃti hyathavā yasmātsvāṃgīyāḥ kṣudvivarjitāḥ .. 3 ..

The verbal root kṣubh means agitation; because she is motionless, she is Nikṣubhā; / or rather, because her own limbs are free from hunger. (3)

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16.12.4

chāyā tāṃ viśate divyā smṛtā sā tena nikṣubhā ..
sāṃprataṃ vartate yo'yaṃ manurloke mahāmate .. 4 ..

Because the divine Chāyā entered her, she is remembered as Nikṣubhā. / In the lineage of him who is the present Manu in the world, O wise one, (4)

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16.12.5

tasyānvavāye jātastu śaṃkhacakagadādharaḥ ..
yamastu mātrā saṃśapto hīnapādo dharātale .. 5 ..

was born the bearer of the conch, discus, and mace. / Yama, however, cursed by his mother, became lame on the surface of the earth. (5)

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16.12.6

prabhāsakṣetramāsādya cacāra vipulaṃ tapaḥ ..
varṣāṇāmayutaṃ sāgraṃ liṃgaṃ pūjitavānpriye .. 6 ..

Reaching the sacred field of Prabhāsa, he performed vast austerity; / for more than ten thousand years he worshipped the liṅga, O beloved. (6)

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16.12.7

tuṣṭaścāhaṃ tatastasya varāṇāṃ ca śataṃ dadau ..
adyāpi tatra deveśi yameśvaramiti śrutam ..
yamadvitīyāyāṃ dṛṣṭvā yamalokaṃ na paśyati .. 7 ..

Pleased with him, I then granted him a hundred boons. / Even today it is famous there as Yameśvara, O queen of gods; / having seen it on Yamadvitīyā, one does not see Yama's realm. (7)

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16.12.12

iti śrīskāṃde mahāpurāṇa ekāśītisāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ saptame prabhāsakhaṃḍe prathame prabhāsakṣetramāhātmye yameśvarotpattivarṇanaṃnāma dvādaśo'dhyāyaḥ .. 12 ..

Thus ends the twelfth chapter, titled “The Description of the Origin of Yameśvara”, in the first [sub-section], the Prabhāsakṣetramāhātmya, of the seventh section, the Prabhāsakhaṇḍa, in the glorious Skanda Mahāpurāṇa, a compilation of eighty-one thousand [verses]. (12)

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